Leading the Orchestra

Last week’s announcement by Affinegy of their Home Portal v2.0 software and related announcement that Cablevision is deploying it, is further evidence of the growing importance of the converged home to service providers’ business plans. We caught up with Affinegy CEO, Melissa Simpler at the Parks Associates Connections conference, where she discusses Home Portal v2.0.

In addition to the discovery and simplification of devices on a home network, the Home Portal v2.0 software effectively allows service providers to create personal data clouds for their customers. The Affinegy software, which identifies the devices on the home networks, serves as an orchestra leader of sorts directing the devices as to where to stream data. Click here to see a video from Connections 2009, where Simpler describes the basis for their product offering.

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Viodi View – 07/06/11 | The Viodi View

July 6, 2011

[…] The just concluded Cloud Leadership Forum (June 20-21 in Santa Clara, CA) brought together CIOs, IT managers, vendors, and analysts to discuss the current status, future directions and important caveats of Cloud Computing. All but the largest companies appear to favor Public Clouds because of lower cost, advantages of scale, and faster deployment. Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft and now Fujitsu all offer public clouds for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). However, HP was touting Hybrid Cloud (mixture of both public and private) as the way forward. HP plans to introduce their own public cloud later this year. Click here to read the entire article, as well as Weissberger’s analysis. Melissa Simpler, CEO Affinegy Leading the Orchestra […]

Viodi View – 07/06/11 | The Viodi View

July 6, 2011

[…] The just concluded Cloud Leadership Forum (June 20-21 in Santa Clara, CA) brought together CIOs, IT managers, vendors, and analysts to discuss the current status, future directions and important caveats of Cloud Computing. All but the largest companies appear to favor Public Clouds because of lower cost, advantages of scale, and faster deployment. Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft and now Fujitsu all offer public clouds for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). However, HP was touting Hybrid Cloud (mixture of both public and private) as the way forward. HP plans to introduce their own public cloud later this year. Click here to read the entire article, as well as Weissberger’s analysis. Melissa Simpler, CEO Affinegy Leading the Orchestra […]

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